‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Lands Powerhouse Directing Lineup: ‘Succession’ Emmy Winner Mark Mylod, ‘Loki’ Helmer Kate Herron and More
variety.comAdam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer If there’s an Avengers of television directors, “The Last of Us” just assembled it.
The juggernaut HBO series has landed a murderer’s row of directing talent for Season 2: Mark Mylod, who just won an Emmy for his work on the final season of HBO’s “Succession”; Kate Herron, who directed every episode of the first season of the Marvel Studios series “Loki”; Stephen Williams, nominated for an Emmy for directing on HBO’s “Watchmen”; and Nina Lopez-Corrado, nominated for an Imagen award for directing on Season 2 of HBO’s “Perry Mason.” The filmmakers join three veteran directors of the series returning for its second season: Creators and executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, who respectively helmed the first and second episodes of the show, and Peter Hoar, who was nominated for an Emmy for directing the heartbreaking third episode, “Long, Long Time.” Hiring any one of the four new filmmakers would be a coup; lining up all of them speaks both to HBO’s pull with top tier talent and “The Last of Us” as one of the biggest shows on TV.
The Season 1 finale scored a series-high 8.2 million viewers when it first aired, doubly impressive considering it was opposite the Academy Awards telecast.
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